Om

¹

Also Aum

[awm]

noun

Hinduism.

1. a mantric word thought to be a complete expression of Brahman and interpreted as having three sounds representing Brahma or creation, Vishnu or preservation, and Siva or destruction, or as consisting of the same three sounds, representing waking, dreams, and deep sleep, along with the following silence, which is fulfillment.

Om.

²

abbreviation

1. Ostmark.

O.M.

³

abbreviation

British.

1. Order of Merit.

OM

¹

abbreviation

1. Order of Merit (a Brit title)

symbol

1. currency (the former) Ostmark

Om

²

/ əʊm /

noun

1. Hinduism a sacred syllable typifying the three gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, who are concerned in the threefold operation of integration, maintenance, and disintegration

OM

³

abbreviation

1. Oman (international car registration)

om

⁴

abbreviation

1. Oman

Word History and Origins

Origin of Om¹

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1780–90

Word History and Origins

Origin of Om¹

from Sanskrit

Example Sentences

OM host Newcastle in the Champions League on Tuesday, with Greenwood expected to start.

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“In her mind, OM would one day be popular enough that OneTaste could fill a football stadium with thousands of strokers and strokees for a simultaneous group OM.”

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A lifeless fish dangled from his beak as he squawked, “Ay! Om fithin hee!”

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It would have been easy to lose those years to the moving hands of history, but Rowntree decided to pick up an Olympus OM-10 to “record their daily lives.”

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Her song “Om Supreme” describes the sense of being ordained to reunite in California, as if this would be the site of their shared reincarnation.

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